Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.

The international economy of 1960 is markedly different from that of the early postwar years.

In recent years, however, a wind of change seems to be blowing through early English historical circles.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.

Or it might have been the absent nephews she addressed, consciously playing with the notion that this was one of the summers of their early years.

During these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

That his moods, even in his early years, are those of his people, does him honor, as his music honors those who inspired it.

He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

The early years of the twentieth century seem very far away.

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.

In the primary grades, reading permeates almost every aspect of school progress, and the children's early experiences of success or failure in learning to read often set a pattern of total achievement that is relatively enduring throughout the following years.

Throughout the early years of World War 2,, reports persisted that the Axis powers had used gas -- Germany in Russia, Japan in China again.

They arrived in Washington about the same time during the early postwar years: Kennedy as the young Congressman from Massachusetts ; ;

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

The effort produced a valuable record of stage techniques in the early years of the century and some interesting records of great theater figures who would otherwise be only names.

Obviously Sloan's early years were influenced by his close friend Robert Henri.

Theresa had seen him through the right college, into the right fraternity, and though pursued by various girls and various mammas of girls, safely married to the right sort, however much in the early years of that match his wife, Anne, had not seemed to understand poor George.

In its early years, there were many variants of the Greek alphabet, a situation which caused many different alphabets to evolve from it.

Portugal has been present in Angola for 400 years, occupied the territory in the 19th and early 20th century, and ruled over it for about 50 years.

The order is thought to have first diverged from other related monocots some 120-130 million years ago ( early in the Cretaceous period ), although given the difficulty in classifying the families involved, estimates are likely to be uncertain.

An early talkie movie remake followed, in 1932, starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, with Bette Davis in a supporting role.

There were two previous film versions of Arthur Richman's play on which this film was based, a 1925 silent version from independent Peninsula Studios, San Mateo, California with Warner Baxter in Grant's role, and a little-known early talkie made in 1929 with Henry Daniell and Ina Claire.

She starred opposite Maurice Chevalier in the early talkie musical, The Playboy of Paris ( 1930 ).

The film was an early " talkie " and lacks a music soundtrack.

The then five-year-old Beard came to the series a year after the transition from the silent / early talkie era Our Gang.

His film appearances include a villainous role in Alfred Hitchcock's early talkie Blackmail ( 1929 ) and much later in the Tommy Steele vehicle Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ).

As an early " talkie ", the film is frequently cited by film historians as a landmark film, and is often cited as the first truly British " all-talkie " feature film.

The success of Warner Bros .' early talkie films ( The Jazz Singer, The Lights of New York, The Singing Fool, and The Terror ) catapulted the studio into the ranks of the major studios.

Two previous film versions had been made: a silent film called The Secret Hour ( 1928 ), with Jean Hersholt in the Laughton role, and an early talkie entitled A Lady to Love ( 1930 ), with Edward G. Robinson in the role.

She did not appear in a film again until 1930, when she played the role of Anne Lymes in Canaries Sometimes Sing, which was an early talkie.

Most lost films are from the silent film and early talkie era, from about 1894 to 1930.

The James Cagney film Winner Take All ( 1932 ) used scenes from the early talkie Queen of the Night Clubs ( 1929 ) starring Texas Guinan.

He arrived in Hollywood during the early talkie years, where he appeared in William Wyler's 1933 film Counsellor at Law.

* For Love or Money ( 1930 film ) ( 1930 ), 1930 early talkie short starring Lois Wilson

Like so many publicly acclaimed silent film actors and actresses however, Philbin was unable to continue a successful acting career during the talkie era of the early 1930s.

Philbin played a few parts during the early talkie era and most notably dubbed her own voice when The Phantom of the Opera was given sound and rereleased.

* An excerpt of the show, the musical fight between the two leading characters, was made into a short talkie film by Warner Bros in the early 1930s.